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Jul. 29—Eastern Washington's football team began its preseason practices on Wednesday, and in team drills the first quarterback to take first-team snaps was redshirt junior Nate Bell.
It doesn't set the depth chart for Game 1 at Northern Arizona, but EWU head coach Aaron Best — who saw his team use four quarterbacks during a 5-7 season last year — emphasized the importance of having two top-line quarterbacks heading into this season.
"I am a firm believer that you need two quarterbacks. You can't have one and then a drop-off," Best said. "Nate's going to take the 1s until he doesn't take the 1s, but (redshirt sophomore) Jake (Schakel) is going to take 1 reps (too)," Best said after practice. "It's a competition. A healthy competition."
One offshoot of playing four quarterbacks last year — Jared Taylor, who graduated, and Kaden Rolfsness, now a sophomore, are the other two — is that…
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